Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 616
ut this is easily accomplished in the shop bymeans of a balancing machine used by the builders. Steam turbines generally show higher efficiency in theuse of steam than reciprocating engines do^ and this factis due to three leading causes. Firsts, it is possible withthe turbine to use highly… … Fig. 250 NEW BLADING MATERIAL the reason that the steam is allowed to expand to a muchlower pressure, and into a higher vacuum. In addition tothis^ the velocity of the expanding steam is utilized in amuch higher degree in the turbine as compared with the re-ciprocating engine. Third, mechanical…
